Meaning

4 senses
  1. A mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.

    Examples of common aerosols are mist, fog, and smoke.

    Aerosol

    аэрозо́льaerozólʹ

    аерозо́льaerozólʹ

    a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas

  2. An aerosol can.

  3. The payload (e.g. insecticide, paint, oil, cosmetics) and propellant contained by an aerosol can.

  4. A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase is composed of either solid or liquid particles and in which the dispersal medium is some gas, usually air.

    аэрозо́льaerozólʹ

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The aerosol was highly flammable.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium:
Русский
By meaning 1
fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium:

Forms

plural: aerosols
Singularaerosol
Pluralaerosols

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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